too bad MHU3 isn't promoted very well..even the demo doesn't show what a "gem" this game is and that it's exclusive to the wii U...the usa have bad gaming taste...

4:15 pm July 31, 2013

ProGamer wrote:

Just like with 3DS, once big franchise Nintendo-exclusive games become available for the system, the sales will go up. This will happen. Until this happens you can reuse this article every month.

4:17 pm July 31, 2013

Chris wrote:

It's a shame because it's a great system with a lot of potential. It just needs more games for it. Once they come out with the 3D Mario World, Zelda and Smash Bros we'll start seeing the Wii U fly off the shelves.

Release a true Mario64 type Mario, Zelda, and a Metroid Prime type Metroid title and the Wii U will fly off of the shelf. The moment one of those 3 release thats when i will purchase myself one and im sure their are proabable a quarter million people who feel the same way

4:36 pm July 31, 2013

Indie 5000 wrote:

It's kinda funny how they'll report Nintendo flopping, but the Wii U is almost in the same position as the 3DS, and when the good games come out, they'll more or less get back what they've been losing, and then you'll notice they won't talk about Nintendo getting back in the game If/When they do so.

4:42 pm July 31, 2013

Brad wrote:

Don't fret Nintendo. I'm gonna buy a WiiU once I buy my PS4 first. The WiiU is going to be a Christmas present for my wife and myself once we buy games for it I like and not just her.

4:47 pm July 31, 2013

DL wrote:

@anon

SSB creator said he wouldn't work on the sequel until he was done making kid icarus for 3ds.. but i know what you mean. nintendo needs to have a much stronger launch titles because they have been doing this same routine for years.

4:48 pm July 31, 2013

anonymous wrote:

there are two possible situations for ninty
1 wii u sells around 60 million units or so and half of the people who buy the wii u are ninty fans
the other half being casuals or xbox/playsstation fans
2. the wii u sells 30 milion units or so & virtually everyone who buys the sonsole is a ninty fan

this depedns on how well the wii u deos over the next few months

4:57 pm July 31, 2013

Rich wrote:

Don't forget they lowered the price of the 3ds

5:05 pm July 31, 2013

annoyed wrote:

Nintendo has the potential to be dominating the gaming market, they are just marketing like morons. Their deadline for 9 million sales less than a year away and they have not even sold 200,000 units. They rushed their console to the shelf and are not releasing ANY good games until a year and a half later? then when they finally release a good game it will be on the same shelves as the ps4 and xbox one? Even on paper this looks like a plan for bankruptcy...in which case everything is going according to plan.

5:13 pm July 31, 2013

anonymous wrote:

@annoyed
nintendo's not goin bankruot
even if the wiiu sales crashed at this very moment, nintendo would be perfectly fine shince they have like 10 billion dollars in the bank

the wii u has had some MAJOR missteps, but ninty can (hopefully) rebound with their 1st party games

5:17 pm July 31, 2013

Keith wrote:

Though i'm a Playstation fan I still don't want to see Nintendo fail and become a 3rd party developer like once rival Sega.

5:18 pm July 31, 2013

Dude wrote:

For $170 I will pay to play Nintendo 1st party titles, For $350, not a chance. Sony and MS can charge a premium for their systems because they have pretty good first party support and so many developers making games that go to both systems (great 3rd party support i.e. Rockstar, Bethesda, etc), they have top of the line hardware and great online services. Nintendo has great 1st party games and that is it. I am into the Wii U at $200, one of the Sony/MS systems at $400/$500 and the other around $200-300 when prices drop.

5:19 pm July 31, 2013

Joe wrote:

I know I'm going get one of these as soon as Mario kart 8 comes out.

5:33 pm July 31, 2013

Roy wrote:

The WiiU lacks any of those "epic must-have genre-defining" games that sell systems. Sure no other system out has them either, but for what they lack in greatness they make up for in bulk first-person-shooter shovelware.

Just bring back the traditional JRPG and the classic massive-level action/adventure gamers with no gimmicks or BS, and they'll sell systems again

5:35 pm July 31, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

The WII U is what the Wii should have been in the first place in order to compete with the 360 and PS3.

6:14 pm July 31, 2013

J wrote:

Stay firm to your convictions as a hardware maker, Nintendo. I'm sure it will help you in the bankruptcy filing.

I'm gonna keep playing mine for as long as I can. It's a good system to me and that's all that matters to me.

7:01 pm July 31, 2013

Pete wrote:

Nintendo use to be inovative in terms of hardware and gameplay. Now they are always a step behind.

7:07 pm July 31, 2013

Rain wrote:

I like Nintendo but think they should have at least attempted to compete with Sony, and Microsoft. The Wii U can't compete with the triple A titles coming to the next gen Ps4 and Xbox One. So that effectively puts them in the group with smart phone games and true Nintendo fans. That's great but obviously maybe not enough.
would it really have killed them to make the system more powerful? Mario would just look so much better, very sad hope they make it.

7:15 pm July 31, 2013

Nick wrote:

Lower the price!!!!! At a price point of $150 for a system people would buy them in mass quantities. Right now the price point is too high considering the quality of titles that are currently out. If they lowered the price and then released DK, Mario and Mario Kart along with the Zelda that was announced sales would skyrocket.

7:15 pm July 31, 2013

Nicholas wrote:

Lower the price!!!!! At a price point of $150 for a system people would buy them in mass quantities. Right now the price point is too high considering the quality of titles that are currently out. If they lowered the price and then released DK, Mario and Mario Kart along with the Zelda that was announced sales would skyrocket.

7:21 pm July 31, 2013

Brad wrote:

Release the extra pad with some compatible two player games and you will see a lot more sell.
I know a lot of families who would love to buy one for their kids but have not done it due to the fact their kids will fight over the "cool" controller.

7:22 pm July 31, 2013

Bob wrote:

It's just amazing that you Nintendo fans are not already sick from playing and replaying and replaying and replaying the same god damn games again and again and again! I mean two decades of Super Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Donkey Kong! That's so lame it's on a magnitude of its own! That's one of the main reasons why us gamers are depicted are geeky neurotic losers in the media!
I know games on other consoles are not that innovative or new but at least they have f@#%ing new characters now and then! For god's sake just let Mario die, it's an embarrassment to the whole gaming community!

7:35 pm July 31, 2013

Harry wrote:

Current game titles are what is bringing this system down. Plus, Nintendo's whole market is for children...They maybe have one or two M rated games. If you can't reach their Everyone to Teen rated group then it down the toilet for them.

7:35 pm July 31, 2013

Anonymous wrote:

Don't count Nintendo out yet. Sony and Microsoft made the console wars a long game. Initial sales might not matter as much as they used to. If Nintendo can put 9 million of these into homes by the time their rivals are just taking off, that could work out as a strategic victory. Hopefully they are timing the release of the heavy hitting titles to synchronize with the PlayStation and Xbox launches.

10:14 pm July 31, 2013

Jesse wrote:

I wish Nintendo would make a new controller. I would like to see a round cylinder device that was a curved touch screen. Where you could play three dimensional puzzle games. Or maybe the device could display a trophy that you won in a game or elsewhere, when you were not playing.

2:19 am August 1, 2013

hen wrote:

9 million is impossible without a big price drop and a slew of family oriented games to attract the "soccer moms" shopping consoles for their kids during the holidays

3:31 am August 1, 2013

Jeremy wrote:

I love all systems but wii u was a stupid name and the controller was a mistake i needs a price cut badly. that being said i love how people bash mario when it was over ten years before there was a side scrolling one just because mario is used in a lot of games they say its rehashing yet those are all different kinda games how many halos do we have or black ops or madden and to the guy who said donkey kong better look it up before donkey kong country returns there has been no donkey kong since n 64 and it was a 3d one so before that was super nintendo donkey kongs are great games with epic music and david wise is back in tropical freeze

4:43 am August 1, 2013

ExtraSneakyCastro wrote:

Wow those sales figures are like throw yourself out a window bad.

6:33 am August 1, 2013

wii U is gay wrote:

worst thing they ever did. should have built system without huge gay tablet and sold it for 199$ with wii U pro controllers

7:10 am August 1, 2013

Digitalburn wrote:

In order to take a dive, you are intimating that they actually where up in some manner. With the Pii U that hasn't actually happened yet, so really where is down?

7:11 am August 1, 2013

Digitalburn wrote:

were not where*

3:00 am August 11, 2013

jsblazed wrote:

If they lowered the price I would buy it... That being said I did preorder a Xbox1 - I still would like a Wii U but compared to Xbox1 and POS4 its just not worth 350.00 and no one wants the 299.99 version.

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